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Symbols of the Four Evangelists German 11th century George II British ca. 1765 Hand
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Mold late 9th–early 10th century Spheroconical Vessel 9th–10th century Hand
Conservator Lucretia Kargère discusses two twelfth-century sculptures in the Museum’s collection that have been reunited at The Met Cloisters on the occasion of Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
Detail views of the Morgan Madonna’s left hand and garments (top and bottom left)
Purchased from Eustache de Lorey, Paris, 1934; continuously exhibited and frequently published since that time; included in interational exhibition Cleopatra’s Egypt, Brooklyn and Munich, 1988, and La Gloire d’Alexandrie, Paris 1998
Nectanebo’s Egyptian name, Nakhthorheb: nakht, the sword held in the king’s left hand
The rich interchange of ideas in Europe, as well as political, economic, and religious events in the period 1400–1600 led to major changes in styles of composing, methods of disseminating music, new musical genres, and the development of musical instruments.
On the one hand, polyphony or multivoiced music, with its horizontal contrapuntal
Italian piety and Italian art of the late Middle Ages and after tended to stress the Incarnation narrative, the sequence of events surrounding his birth, and the events of the Passion, the sufferings of his final week on earth.
reverence for the holy family is evident as the youngest Magus clasps Joseph’s hand
Though profoundly influenced by landscapists and history painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Turner was an innovator who has been hailed as a forerunner of modernist abstraction.
an extensive visual vocabulary that ranged far beyond precise renderings, first-hand
1962, excavated under the direction of Max Mallowan, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; ceded in the division of finds to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; acquired by the Museum in 1962, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations
Each man holds a ram-headed scepter in his right hand while the figure at left holds
Inscription: In stone, within image, lower left corner: „J.M.I. Del.“In stone, beneath image, lower left: „F. E. [sic] PALMER „; lower right, „LITH. OF CURRIER & IVES, N.Y.“; lower center, „Entered according to Act of Congress AD 1868, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of N
New York-based lithography business had thrived since 1835, produced thousands of hand-colored
Watch a playlist of fifteen automata, clocks, writing machines, and more.
He beats his chest in penitence and regularly lifts his left hand toward his lips
